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Should I have a 2 lb a week weight loss until my goal weight?
I eat about 2000 calories a day now and with my time at the gym and work, that gets me a nice 1000 calorie deficit. But I noticed as I lose weight when I recalculate my tdee, my deficit gets smaller and smaller if I don’t decrease my calorie budget. At some point soon it’ll be a pound and a half a week and then soon after…
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I thought my life ruining binge habits were behind me. Looks like i was wrong and i'm freaking out
Ever since i can remember I've used food as a coping mechanism whenever something happened in my life that i felt I couldn't handle. Work is hard? Go home and eat crap. My relationship is going down the pooper? Go order a pizza. Even when it didn't result in making me any happier (even temporarily) i would just keep doing…
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i just cried resisting the urge to eat junk food (binge)
I woke up and my daughter's birthday cake was on the table while the family was away and i wanted to eat it so bad. I didn't even think about it, i decided I AM GOING to eat this. And it was crazy. At lightning speed when i decided i was going to stuff my mouth full of as much birthday cake as i could (probably not even…
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Nearing the end of my weight loss, what should I be doing? Deficit wise?
Man this has been a long hard road. I didn't lose it fast, but I've made some real progress that just a year ago I never thought I would make. I was 260 and now I'm down to 180 with the end goal of a beefy 150. I've been going to the gym every single day and get some cardio + weights in and try to eat under 2000 calories a…
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Is there a point to lifting weights if I'm still fat?
I'm still 30 lbs away from my goal weight and my original goal was to just do cardio in the gym until I get to my goal weight and THEN start a weight lifting routine. I was wondering what you all thought about this? I didn't feel like I could really build much muscle being at such a calorie deficit and whatever I did build…
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Can someone help a newbie at the gym? I don't know what to do!
I just joined a gym last week and I'm really liking it so far. But I really don't know what to do when I go. The first day I was on the weight machines and probably pushed myself too hard because almost a week later I'm just NOW getting over my arms being so sore. Ever since then, I've been doing lots of cardio on the…
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Worried about exercise and water retention
I know I know. Its a stupid thing to worry about, but I really look forward to seeing that number on the scale every week and I'm not looking forward to the idea of starting my gym membership and possibly seeing a stall on the scale. Is water retention a sure thing when I start lifting weights? It won't stop me, it just…
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Anybody have a gym membership to planet fitness?
How do you like it? I know they got a lot of flack for serving pizza once a month, but from what I've heard from actual people they seem to like it. Two new planet fitness opened in my area and a monthly membership was only $10 so I joined. The gym opens sometime next month. Am pretty excited
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Am I just encountering a crazy amount of water weight or what?
So not too long ago I would see the number on the scale, freak out and revert back to binge eating. I'm not doing that this time! (I'm pretty proud of myself for that) instead I want to understand what is going on. The past week I've eaten at a deficit everyday except for 1 day when I ate at maintenance. I've also started…
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What would you say my activity level is?
I walk 7 miles a day according to my Apple Watch. 4 days a week I work as a CNA on 12 hour shifts and I do quite a bit of lifting and stuff. I also get between 30 minutes to an hour of "exercise" everyday, meaning I get my heart rate up quite high and sweat a lot. We can count out sedentary, so would you guys say my…
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For those that lost it all, what did you think as you lost it?
I remember when I lost weight years and years ago I noticed something like: 200: I lost my double chin and my face looked thinner 180's I felt like with my clothes on, I looked pretty much normal and you wouldn't look at me and think "oh yeah he's fat". 170's started getting attention from the opposite sex. And my stomach…
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What's a better name than "cheat meal"?
Cause I'm sick of hearing it. Sick of saying it. Sick of it even being a common word used in our forums. What we are doing is part of a lifestyle to be healthier. That doesn't mean we are going to turn into gigantic prudes and on thanksgiving tell our families "I only have 10 calories left in my budget. Just enough to…
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Thought I had cravings and binge eating beat. Nope!
I haven't majorly screwed up on my eating since June. June I say! I have been so on point with my eating and weight loss I thought my entire lifestyle changed to the point where my binge eating and insane cravings were behind me. Nope! I'm learning more about myself everyday. I can have one high calorie meal no problem.…
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I can't see much of a difference after 50 lbs. Can you?
I thought I would feel so skinny after losing 50 lbs (even still with some weight to lose) but I don't feel anything like I thought I would feel. I still feel fat as hell! Is this normal?
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Has any body kept a 2 lb a week weight loss until their goal weight?
I know it's usually better to lower your deficit as you approach goal weight, just wondering for the sake of curiosity if anybody kept the 2lb a week (1000 cal deficit) all the way til goal weight
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Nobody has commented on my weight loss!
And I don't really care. I wasn't losing weight to get compliments or for anybody to notice. I did it for me. But after losing about 60 lbs, it's just odd that nobody has even mentioned it for a second. No coworkers. Family. Not even my girlfriend has said word one about it. I like that nobody has said anything because I…
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I think I'm going through a woosh. This is weird
I have stayed the same weight for an entire damn week despite being on point with calorie counting and exercise. I have literally burned off thousands off extra calories and still....nothing. Grrrrr But I have noticed oddly, that despite staying the same body weight number, my body fat percentage has been going down…
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For those close to their goal weight: how do you feel?
And for those that hit their goal... I was just thinking about this today. I'm doing so well and kicking so much butt that at this rate, I'll be at my goal weight by summer. But how will it feel? And how will it feel when I'm almost there? Will I want to revert to old habits? Will I be more motivated than ever? Will I…
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Can we talk about water retention for a sec?
So, i tend to overanalyze when it comes to anything weight loss related so if i'm way off, thats cool. Just tell me. Chances are i'm overcomplicating things. Couple things i was just thinking about. I swear whenever i have a high calorie meal (like a 2,000 calorie sodium filled meal) that day or the next day i go to work i…
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I miss binge eating. Sometimes
Is that weird? I've gotten to the point where I really don't have cravings and when I think back to when I was really fat and depressed and ate whatever I wanted, I recognize that as a crappy time in my life. But those times when I had a day off and could just lounge around and order a big fat pizza with every topping and…
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Oh god damn this is frustrating. I feel like going off diet!
I've gotten my 10,000 steps every single day this week and not eaten above my 1800 calories a day. Religiously. And what happens? Weight goes up weight goes down. But really, mathematically, I should be 3 lbs lighter than the scale is showing! Ahhh! I was excited to be 227 before my little road trip today but now after not…
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Is it worth it to quit diet soda? Have you?
I drink about a 6pack of some variation of diet soda a day. Coke zero. Pepsi max. Cherry zero. Vanilla coke zero. I love it. Especially when I'm eating. Doesn't get much better than a chilled glass of vanilla coke zero filled to the brim with ice. But today it got me thinking. I really hate not drinking it. I drink other…
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NSV: I only had 1 cookie! What?!
I know. This sounds weird to even say out loud and celebrate but for me it's a big deal! For the past decade I've had this disordered eating mentality of "if I even have one bite of something I shouldn't. I'm done. I'm officially not dieting" and it leads to like a week long binge and then guilt. I can tell my attitude has…
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Posts praising eating very little. What?
I just saw a reddit post and wanted to talk to you guys about it. That's what friends do right? Wink I see posts all the time on reddit's progress pics from people talking about how they lost all this weight...by basically starving themselves. I saw one just the other day about a guy that lost like 80lbs eating 1000…
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Wouldn't usually ask about exercise calories, but...
So I wouldn't normally ask because really, I've been sticking to a strict calorie budget and I know how out of control people can get eating back exercise calories and screwing up their diet. But I got this nifty apple watch that tracks my heart rate continuously, while also tracking gps location, stride length and a host…
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Is my Apple watch calculating insane calories or what?
I've been using Fitbit for awhile and I find it tends to lowball my calories burned but I'm cool with that. Now that I have my Apple watch, the calories are all over the place. All I did today was go for a short walk and get about 4,000 steps the entire day. My Fitbit app says I burned about 2100 calories. My Apple watch?…
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What made you fat?
For awhile it was just that I ate my feelings. Whenever anything bad happened, I needed something to make me feel good. ( as pathetic as that sounds) then i just developed a huge appetite. The idea of eating even 2000 calories a day made me cringe. Like "how the hell would I get full off that?" I must've stretched out my…
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Exercise 'not key to obesity fight' Doctors say
Oh god the comments on this article are so much fat logic. I'm glad I belong here and not there http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32417699?ocid=socialflow_facebook
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Ate lots of calories then...lost weight?
im just fascinated at the science of all this. I've weighed myself everyday for the past week and have been a consistent weight. Maybe even felt a little bloated and chunky. Then today I eat a crappy breakfast, then eat a McDonald's breakfast later on and I mean really crappy. I had 2 mcgriddles, 5 hash browns and a…
